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Tableau Prep Cookbook

You're reading from   Tableau Prep Cookbook Use Tableau Prep to clean, combine, and transform your data for analysis

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563766
Length 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hendrik Kleine Hendrik Kleine
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Table of Contents (11) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Tableau Prep 2. Chapter 2: Extract and Load Processes FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Cleaning Transformations 4. Chapter 4: Data Aggregation 5. Chapter 5: Combining Data 6. Chapter 6: Pivoting Data 7. Chapter 7: Creating Powerful Calculations 8. Chapter 8: Data Science in Tableau Prep Builder 9. Chapter 9: Creating Prep Flows in Various Business Scenarios 10. Other Books You May Enjoy

Creating a flow for transaction analytics

In this recipe, we'll create a data pipeline, or flow, for analytics. In this scenario, we'll assume that we are an analyst for a fictive department store with multiple physical stores, as well as an online store front. We will be presented with multiple data sources that need to be combined, cleaned, and transformed so that we can output a clean and reliable dataset of all transactions that occurred in the first six months of 2020. This is a common scenario in most industries and is the perfect use case for Tableau Prep.

Getting ready

To follow along with this recipe, download the Sample Files 9.1 folder from this book's GitHub repository. In here you'll find various data files. Several of these files originate from disparate systems and we'll need to employ Tableau Prep to provide a single, holistic output of all transactions.

The contents of the files are as follows:

  • Files starting with OnlineSales...
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